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Originally Posted by andyl
Where I believe the Co-op is on firm ground is the difficulty gay members of staff may have serving a client so deeply homophobic. As a comparison, a black person serving a Ku Klux Klan member?
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Exactly. I wasn't saying CV members
had acted in such a way, just that the Co-Op would have to consider the possibility that they
could act that way to one of their employees, given the statements CV made.
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Originally Posted by punky
As many probably know, I spend a lot of time out in Florida. There still are too many dumbarses walking around with confederate crap on themselves. I was standing at the counter of a certain fast food establishment, waiting for a special order to be cooked, so I let the line through. The guy behind me was a redneck with a confederate t-shirt and confederate bandana. You would have thought the civil war was still on. The redneck was very rude and disrespectful to the black server, but he did nothing, said nothing served him and that was that. I said to the black guy: "You really have to put up with s**t?", he just sort of shrugged and said it didn't bother him.
That black guy was great. You can't stop people being racist, but you can deny them the pleasure of hate by rising above it. The same applies for sexuality issues.
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I suppose saying that it did bother him would be admitting victory for the bigots. I bet it
does bother him though
But yes, I've found the way to deal with people who are bigoted - or just rude - towards me is to treat them with excessive politeless and courtesy, to show the difference between us
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Originally Posted by Russ D
I'm not saying it's alright, you should know better than that. And I disagree that "you're either part of it or you aren't". I'm sure there are lots of people who agree with the BNP's principles and detest the violence and knuckle-draggers, which of course is off-topic.
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Perhaps, but they wouldn't join the BNP then would they?
